

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Selina Peake

Simeon Peake

Pervus DeJong

Dirk DeJong

Klaus Poole

Maartje Poole

Aug Hempel

Julie Hempel

Widow Paarlenburg

Jacob Hoogenduck

Dirk DeJong (child)

William Storm (as Henry Herbert)

Dirk DeJong (infant)
Paula Storm

Dallas O'Meara
